President Donald Trump has finally realized that he launched a political grenade at his own party when he declared war on Iran—and that he has no way to diffuse it.
The president on Wednesday tried to claim in a panicked social media post that he had nothing to with Israel’s attack on the South Pars gas field, part of the world’s largest natural gas reserve, despite multiple reports that he greenlit the strikes.
The attack marked a major escalation in the war with Iran and threatened to deepen an energy crisis that was already hurting Republicans’ chances of keeping their majorities in Congress in November’s midterm elections.
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